After having told us that it was a routine lease, Ms. Cochrane, in answer to my questions, told us that we were right and that it was not a routine situation. The department—of which you were minister for five years—had developed the operating rules under which, when a lease was up, rather than negotiating directly with the landlord where the department was located, the department had to launch a call for tenders.
Were these new rules enacted or adopted under your watch?